When people become corrupted and lose their moral compass due to excess money and success and they become corrupted by power and success it changes their outlook towards other people. In “The Great Gatsby” the upper class are depicted as short-sighted to what is important in life, family, moral values, honesty, and decency in their dealings with other people, their own families, and in business transactions. Tom Buchanan is shown as a careless, racist, small minded man who wields his power to control others in doing what he wants to do with no regard to what is morally and ethically right. Gatsby stops at nothing to become rich overnight in illegal dealings with mobsters such as Wolfsheim. Gatsby breaks the law as a bootlegger to find success to impress Daisy.
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